JABER AL AZMEH – BORDER-LINES
2016-05-23Where his previous series Wounds (2012) tackled the emotional ramifications of the uprising in Syria, and Ba’ath (2014) addressed the lack of freedom speech as the conflict unfolded, Border-lines takes on a more aerial perspective, exploring both the roots of global crisis and its implications.
There is a line that cuts through this latest body of work. Quickly, it becomes apparent that the line is a compositional aspect and curatorial instrument of the exhibition. Upon closer inspection, however, that equatorial line burns at the very partition between dream and reality, conscious and unconscious. In spite of the appearance of calmness and minimalism, there is a screaming silence to these images.
The show launches with an Orwellian feel – a cluster of photographs in barren deserts, all of which speak of consumerist, capitalist cultures and snapshots of global systems that have ostensibly failed. Those images of a gigantic, rusted billboard void of a message; row upon row of identical, seemingly socialist houses empty of emotion; and a chain of frozen buses, together question our contemporary reality.
Opposite – Madness 3, 2015
Exhibition runs through to July 2nd, 2016
Green Art Gallery
Al Quoz 1, Street 8, AlSerkal Avenue, Unit 28
P.O.Box 25711 Dubai
UAE
